Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2142853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaac Abotebuno |
| FAMILY NAME | Akolgo |
| SIGNATURE | AKOLGO I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jimma University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1446-6800 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Banking and Monetary Policy in Ghana
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom
Since the pioneering role of Kenya’s mobile money service – M-PESA, a consortium of international development agencies, philanthropists, academics, tech corporations and governments – have led an optimistic account of a poverty-eradicating, prosperity-spreading power of financial technology (fintech) in the global South. In contrast, a growing critical IPE literature has demonstrated that the optimistic accounts are broad-brush and misleading. Dr…
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa
Recent accounts of the re-emergence of debt distress in Africa, while offering significant insights, fail to provide the historical political-economic context within which African indebtedness is set. On the surface, spending induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war, and repeated examples of fiscal indiscipline by African governments appear to be the causes of the current wave of debt crises. Beyond these fac…
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana
This briefing explains Ghana’s recent banking sector failures and renewed debt crisis as consequences of its uneven and deleterious integration into the global capitalist financial system, a situation that critical scholars in international political economy call international financial subordination
Afro-euphoria
The result of Ghana's 2016 presidential election was evidence of previously perceived governance failure and ‘suffering’ among the populace. This Briefing assesses the extent to which that contradicts the euphoria surrounding growing African economies
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana
This briefing explains Ghana’s recent banking sector failures and renewed debt crisis as consequences of its uneven and deleterious integration into the global capitalist financial system, a situation that critical scholars in international political economy call international financial subordination
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa
Recent accounts of the re-emergence of debt distress in Africa, while offering significant insights, fail to provide the historical political-economic context within which African indebtedness is set. On the surface, spending induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war, and repeated examples of fiscal indiscipline by African governments appear to be the causes of the current wave of debt crises. Beyond these fac…
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom
Since the pioneering role of Kenya’s mobile money service – M-PESA, a consortium of international development agencies, philanthropists, academics, tech corporations and governments – have led an optimistic account of a poverty-eradicating, prosperity-spreading power of financial technology (fintech) in the global South. In contrast, a growing critical IPE literature has demonstrated that the optimistic accounts are broad-brush and misleading. Dr…
Afro-euphoria
The result of Ghana's 2016 presidential election was evidence of previously perceived governance failure and ‘suffering’ among the populace. This Briefing assesses the extent to which that contradicts the euphoria surrounding growing African economies
Afro-euphoria
The result of Ghana's 2016 presidential election was evidence of previously perceived governance failure and ‘suffering’ among the populace. This Briefing assesses the extent to which that contradicts the euphoria surrounding growing African economies
Collapsing banks and the cost of finance capitalism in Ghana
This briefing explains Ghana’s recent banking sector failures and renewed debt crisis as consequences of its uneven and deleterious integration into the global capitalist financial system, a situation that critical scholars in international political economy call international financial subordination
On the contradictions of Africa’s fintech boom
Since the pioneering role of Kenya’s mobile money service – M-PESA, a consortium of international development agencies, philanthropists, academics, tech corporations and governments – have led an optimistic account of a poverty-eradicating, prosperity-spreading power of financial technology (fintech) in the global South. In contrast, a growing critical IPE literature has demonstrated that the optimistic accounts are broad-brush and misleading. Dr…
Ghana's Debt Crisis and the Political Economy of Financial Dependence in Africa
Recent accounts of the re-emergence of debt distress in Africa, while offering significant insights, fail to provide the historical political-economic context within which African indebtedness is set. On the surface, spending induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, economic fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war, and repeated examples of fiscal indiscipline by African governments appear to be the causes of the current wave of debt crises. Beyond these fac…
Banking and Monetary Policy in Ghana
Economics (5 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Market economy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 works) · Debt (2 works) · Economic policy (2 works) · Financial system (2 works)